Show I r Timely Topics Topic I I WOMEN IN THE MACHINE Perhaps a a distinguishing characteristic of the sexes to date has been that men organize behind men and women behind ideas The party and the lesser political machine is the work of ot men and now very seldom se raises any real issue of ot theory in government But there was a time in the history of the United States when men nien Just as women now voted for what symbolized to them a scheme of right government The present parties are relics relics' of this time though the intellectual fire has died ded on the altars The press does not believe e that the function of women Is to make male a political machine It does believe that women should be organized Just as men are to to back the best candidate As A It be becomes become's omes increasingly app apparent rent that organized womanhood s a going to support at the polls men inert who stand for certain ideas those ideas will wiIl come to be written into platforms but if women enter into the battle and barter of politics they will lose their influence for good Grand Grand Rapids Press |